An inquiry
Creeping fascism continues its creep.
I don’t mean metaphorically or hyperbolically. This is how it’s done – this perversion of courts and legislative bodies.
House Republicans took aim on Thursday at the Georgia prosecutor bringing a sweeping felony racketeering case against former President Donald J. Trump for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, moving to investigate the woman pursuing the case just hours before Mr. Trump was to be booked at an Atlanta jail.
Representative Jim Jordan, Republican of Ohio and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, announced he was opening an inquiry into Fani T. Willis, the Fulton County, Ga., district attorney, questioning whether she had collaborated with Biden administration officials and targeting any federal funding her office receives.
Trump is the guy who tried to muscle the Georgia Secretary of State into “giving” him the votes to move Georgia’s electors to his side, and here’s a member of the federal legislature pretending it’s the other guy who’s dirty.
In a letter to Ms. Willis sent on Thursday, Mr. Jordan accused her of carrying out a politically motivated prosecution.
The phone call. The phone call to Brad Raffensperger. Willis didn’t do that, Trump did. It’s a Mafia-style move and there’s no way Jim Jordan doesn’t know that.
“I make decisions in this office based on the facts and the law,” she said. “The law is completely nonpartisan. That’s how decisions are made in every case.” She added that her office had brought 11 other racketeering cases before filing charges against Mr. Trump: “We followed the same process. We look at the facts. We look at the law, and we bring charges.”
Sure but when it’s Trump you’re supposed to let him off, because that’s the integrityous thing to do.
Just because Trump thinks he’s above the law doesn’t mean everyone thinks this way. In his mind it has to be political, because he can see no other motivations, such as justice, or abiding by our system of laws. He doesn’t believe in those things except as it suit his own political goals. It’s political for him, so it’s political for everyone. Effing moron.
This wouldn’t be so bad if he didn’t have most of the Republican Party following suit. They still see it as being to their advantage to ride on his coat-tails, wherever he takes them. And now that violent insurrection is on the table, it’s no longer necessary to appeal to most voters to gain power, and/or keep it. The next bunch of armed thugs might not be as unlucky or inept as the first lot were.
This is why the law must be enforced, right? To dissuade the next bunch of thugs? I think I’m going to side with Willis on this (how could we not?); the charges should not be dismissed because the accused thinks it’s “politically motivated.”
On the one hand, yay for Georgia, and on the other, I wish he and his sycophants were doing this somewhere else.
The worst thing about Atlanta right now is that Trump is going to be here. It sure fucks the traffic up.